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FUN FACT: "One of those who cooked for Rasputin during the Great War was a chef at Petrograd's luxurious Astoria Hotel who went on, after the Revolution, to cook for Lenin and Stalin. He was Spiridon Putin, grandfather of President Vladimir Putin." Simon Montefiore, "The Romanovs", Vintage Books, 2016, footnote, page 600.

Marx described how a proletarian state would arise, not what it would look like. Lenin didn't abandon Marxism, but he was forced to "wing it" as the Soviet State was breaking new ground by simply existing

Hugely impressed by this clear, concise and well balanced program. Congratulations.

@5:20 the video mentions the writer Mikhail Bulgokov (sic) ... the reference likely is to the revolutionary anarchist Mikhail Bakunin (1814-76), rather than to Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), who was obviously not a contemporary of Dostoyevsky or Kropotkin.

I learned about Lenin in high school as my country was then ruled by a socialist and learning the Marxist-Leninist political theory in school was a requirement. I was always fascinated by his ideology. However, I didn’t know about his childhood and overall upbringing until today. This is a well organized & informative documentary! Thank you.

Usually when there is a documentary about Lenin it fails to be objective and it is strongly biased against Lenin. This doc is an exception. It does present a balanced and accurate veiw.

A great narration, unadulterated history, no political bias, only facts.

Extraordinary presentation. Many decades ago I pursued a graduate degree in Russian and Soviet history so I know a little something about Lenin. But your bio here expanded my knowledge. I would only add that there's a school of thought that Krupskaya had a significant hand in Lenin's final testament and I expected something on that issue. But overall I am deeply impressed with this superb presentation.

"Достучаться до справедливости в ворота дворцов можно только прикладами винтовок" В.И Ленин

This video should indicate that a great deal of the footage of Lenin doesn’t actually depict Lenin, but instead actors portraying him.

Fab doc. One issue: Bulgakov is mentioned early on but he did not start publishing until after WWI with his debut novel “The White Guard”

thank you, the summing up at the end was impressive

This was an excellent documentary; step by step historical insight in to Lenin and what led to communism. Thank you!!👍👍

Love these profiles! The narrator is superb and the content is very interesting! Cheers!

the first Soviet Constitution of 1918 was adopted; instead of a unitary state, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) appeared; the capital was moved from Petrograd to Moscow; the abolition of estates, the Soviet man became a citizen of the republic; introduction of the Western European calendar (Gregorian); established 8-hour working day; a regulation on the social security of the elderly and disabled was adopted; laws have been passed to protect women's and child labor; free education and free medicine were proclaimed; the church is separated from the state and the school; nationalization of banks, industry, railway transport, sea and river ports; land socialization.

It's important to know what happened in history, thank you very much for presenting!

Thank you for sharing and posting this informative video that explains clearly a complicated subject.

I read the history of Russia since I can remember- this video filled many gaps. Thanking you for a very informative and brilliantly compiled part of history!

Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful documentary with us. I've watched the documentaries before about this revolution, but this one was exceptional. Thanks again ❤.

This is a truly excellent program.Well organised and unbiased.

Theory without experience is always dangerous. The concentration of power is the enemy, no matter the supposed end.

This will, undoubtedly, be excellent

I'm thankful for this historical history,I hope you guys never stop posting all of this historical facts

This is as productive as it can get. Thanks a lot!

I'd love to see a video on Viriato or Henry the Navigator. Def have a few Portuguese individuals that would be great to watch!

Excellent documentary - I learned so much. Thank you.

These documentary presentations are indispensable. Thank you so much.

Great documentary. It’s impressive Russia didn’t completely lose its sovereignty after what it went though in 1917 and 1918.

Let me say only one thing here. The video says that it was likely that Lenin did not know of his mother's Jewish heritage. But in a recent Dutch podcast I heard a professor of history say that Lenin was proud of his part-Jewish heritage, because he admired some intellectual Jews and had a high esteem of them. So my point is: so many things are said on the internet without any reliable source and many of those 'facts' or strong assumptions are not true at all.

Thank you very much for such well put together documentary

Brilliant: clear, focused, and deep at the same time. Thank you!

This is a Very helpful summary of Ulanov's development in the sociopolitical context of his times--and, very well presented. Thanks

These videos give a good escape from the politics and economics of today

The narrator is top shelf 🍸

Sooo much to learn from all this, thank you

excellent and very informative documentary. thanks for your effort..!

Finally!!!! I was waiting for you guys to release a video on Lenin. Thank you so much!

This has to be one of the best and most importantly comprehensive documentations I have seen in quite awhile. Thank You.

very good and interesting presentation . Thanks

Calling Lenin a reactionary makes me doubt the whole documentary immediately

I love your biography videos. Especially on the throughness of representing the people and the history explained. I wish you could make a video on Che Guvera.

Amazing doc , i loved it thank you so much for sharing

Really insightful. Thank you for the history lesson

Really insightful. Thank you for the history lesson. This is a truly excellent program.Well organised and unbiased..

In the viewing of this channel and it's expertly crafted content, we are experiencing a revolution as well. A revolution of high quality content, that surpasses most of what has been seen on KZfaq, in the past. Long live the Revolution!

Best book on this period is "Red Victory " by W Bruce Lincoln , about the civil war of 1918 - 21 , my favourite book of modern history along with Shirers "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich , Lincolns book is best for its character descriptions eg] Zinoviev and kamenev as "political Siamese twins" , the description of Dzerzhinsky is brilliant , the anecdote of the Llubyanka food enough to give one nightmares , " horse hair and hide with sticky floating globules all culminating in a foul evil smelling liquid " is what I can remember from reading it way back in 92 , also the discriptions of some of the horrible cossack attamans like Kalmykov and Ungern Sternburg not to mention the anarchist leader Makhno ,if anyone likes modern history books you will love this !

Well, here goes my weekend. Will be watching your videos

a detailed and comprehensive documentary, having all the necessary factors one needs to study Lenin as a revolutionary and theorist.

"[As Tsar Alexander] approached, the police arrested three young People's Will terrorists carrying bombs to perpetrate a second 1 March outrage. Five terrorists were hanged, including their bomb-maker, Alexander Ulyanov, aged nineteen, whose execution had a decisive influence on his younger brother, Vladimir, the future Lenin." Simon Montefiore, "The Romanovs", Vintage Books, 2016, footnote, page 470.

Yay!!! Russian history starting! Always been fascinated with soviet Russia

Excellent and comprehensive. Thanks. Regards.

Thanks so much for this wonderful and exceptionally well done documentary on Lenin.

This was a very interesting documentary. I knew nothing about Lenin. Thank you for posting.

The People Profiles, You're the best! I subscribed because I love your content!

Great video! Just wondering if you'd consider making videos of Kim Il-sung and/or Kim Jong-il at some point.

This video was excellent...especially in his and Russian relationship to Germany in the early years. The one thing it did not go into enough i feel was to mention the role of Germany facilitating his return to Russia and rise to power during the war

00:04 Vladimir Lenin's early life and family background 01:25 Vladimir's childhood and early education 02:14 The impact of his father's death and his brother's involvement in a conspiracy 03:56 The political landscape of Russia in the 19th century 06:27 Vladimir's radicalization and involvement in protests 09:28 Vladimir's move to Saint Petersburg and involvement in revolutionary groups 10:12 His arrest and imprisonment 11:52 Exile to Siberia and marriage to Nadya 12:57 Continued activism and relocation to Switzerland and Germany 14:47 Lenin's involvement in the early history of the Russian communist movement 15:08 Split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks at RSDLP's 2nd Party Congress 16:31 Bolsheviks acquire control over the central committee of the RSDLP 17:39 Revolution of 1905 and Lenin's return to Russia 18:53 October Manifesto and the end of the Revolution of 1905 20:07 Lenin and the Bolsheviks consider their options during the political crackdown 21:31 Lenin's return to London and resuming control over the RSDLP 23:19 Formalization of split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks into separate political parties 23:45 Opportunity for Lenin to re-establish himself during the outbreak of the European war 24:49 Lenin's time in Switzerland and the publication of Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism 26:34 Lenin's theory of transitioning straight from autocracy to socialist revolution 27:30 Disaffection, food shortages, and social unrest in Russia during the war 29:38 Bolstering the Bolshevik cause and the 'April Theses' 30:36 Tensions and violent demonstrations during the July Days 31:04 Suppression of the Bolsheviks and Lenin's plotting in Finland 31:40 Tense political situation and Kornilov's military takeover attempt 32:03 Lenin's return to Petrograd and the rise of the Bolsheviks 32:50 The October Revolution and the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks 33:39 Establishment of a new socialist government and the Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia 34:38 Introduction of economic reforms and major legislative changes 39:00 Formation of a one-party state and consolidation of power by the Communist Party 39:19 Assassination attempts on Lenin and his declining health 41:05 Transformation of the social and legal landscape of Russia 44:25 Lenin's government seeks peace with Germany 45:38 The rise of the White Army 47:16 State terror and the Cheka 49:04 The use of blocking units 50:28 The Red Army goes on the offensive 51:19 The end of the Russian Civil War 52:36 The establishment of the Comintern 53:23 The New Economic Policy 54:51 Lenin's political thought and legacy 59:28 In March 1923 Lenin suffered another stroke, as a result of which he lost the ability to speak.

Just wanna say thanks for uploading. Good to fall sleep to thanks

Thank you for such a wonderful video

Great documentary. The US with 2 parties with one ideology is no different to 'one party' in old Soviet Union?

Russian history is very engrossing. Thank you for this narration.

Great editing and narration

Excelent video. It congregated many of my known facts about Lenin and added more on top to build a continuous image of him. By the way, what is the outro melody?

It was impressive and unbiased and full of knowledge documentary …. The narrator himself has a balanced personality really impressive step by step provision of knowledge and events…. Thumbs up for the great job.

thanks People Profiles

this is great narration...thankyou for this information

As usual, Churchill said it best, '...the Russian people's greatest misfortune was his birth. Their second greatest was his death."

Excellent. It has given me both an intellectual and biographical ground of Lenin. Thanks.

Very educational and informative

Very well done!

Bravo! This is an impressive documentary, a great historiographic approach to the life and times of V. I. Lenin. I will say it again, Lenin was not only a working class hero but a gigantic working class hero!

Very well presented

This was very informative, I would really like a similar video about Karl Marx

43:54 "a new Ukrainian state" requires the extreme clarification that it was only the Lwow/Gallicia/Volynhia region that was ruled by the self declared state in Lwow. When Germany collapsed it became a very venal anti-Jewish anti-Russian proto Nazi state that had only 13% or so literacy. There were competing and even more vicious racist bandit states in Kiev (Petlura) and Zaporozyhe (the so called anarchists who were basically rapists and marauders), plus Tsarists still in Rostov whose first move was to attack northwest to reconnect with Europe. The Lwow proto-Nazis were defeated by Poland. The others by the Tsarists. Then the Red Ukraine forces from Kharkov and the side-switching bandits - as at that time "Ukraine" did not include any Black Sea coast -took over from Tsarists whose last gasp was attacking Petrograd from Estonia in 1922.

“Freedom in capitalist society always remain the same as it was in Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners” Vladimir Lenin

Superb documentary, very informative!

What I would like to emphasize is that Lenin knew the history of the French Revolution very well and was a great admirer of it. Robespierre was his teacher and Lenin knew what mistake Robespierre made, so he avoided this mistake. Lenin understood that the Bolsheviks were the new Jacobins, and he was the most important Jacobin. The proletariat was a new class, the French Revolution was the bourgeoisie... if compared with modern times, today such a class is workers in the IT sector and digital technologies. Napoleon was the Tamer of the French Revolution, and Stalin became the Tamer of the Russian Revolution. If we continue my logic: In Russia in 1991 there was a bourgeois counter-revolution, then Putin is the Tamer of the bourgeois counter-revolution of 1991. Napoleon carried the ideas of the French Revolution (private property, Code civil), Stalin carried the ideas of building communism in a single country and spreading the influence of communism throughout the world, Putin carried the ideas of traditional culture against multiculturalism and building a multipolar world, against the hegemony of one country, the USA.

As im not Russian I dont know what others think but my greatest liking of russia is the Great classical music from the Great classical composer's of Russia and the novalist as i admire all classical music be it Russian or any other country

Youre' simply the best !!!!

Its interesting to know that some of Lenin's last words was Don't let Stalin take over.. That says something there

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We can only take a sustainable control of the production through the In-Group Democracy (IGD) as modelled by human ecologist Terje Bongard.

I don’t think this is as objective and unbiased as many have suggested in the comments, but it’s still useful/informative. Thank you.

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Great video i learned so much!!!!!

I think one should also mention those three assassination attempts on Lenin in connection with his change of mind in regards to constituent assembly and hardening of his overall position early in 1918. Counter-revolution emerged immediately after 1917 and Lenin felt that communists had to harden their approach so that they were able to deal with it better and save revolutionary gains for Russian society. You have to tie assassination attempts to Lennin's change of position in regards to the form of governing. Of course, forming of Cheka was a mistake as this monster was impossible to delete after the end of civil war. But one cannot judge Lenin here too much as conditions in which he and communists found themselves after 1917 were extreme and clear and 100% right solution was impossible to see. Situation must resolve quickly during volatile post-revolution year if one wants to have success. Add to this lack of resources for new commmunist government in terms of dealing with emergence of counter-revolution reaction. I also think that well-functioning bourgeois capitalist democracy wasnt possible in Russia at that time. It would've meant opening yourself to developed western capitalism that would have turned Russia into appendage, another "Africa", source for the rich European capitalism. Nobody would've let Russia to develop calmly into developed industrial capitalism. Russia would've gotten into same situation it got in 1990s. But way worse. So Lenin's idea was correct and only way at that point. To develop Russia into industrial country via centralized state governing. Russia would've never developed so quickly into industrial nation via capitalist profit-making logic. And people shouldnt forget the hostility of all European and Western nations towards Russia in 1920s and 1930s. Capitalists didnt want to have socialist state so close to their borders. And in 1930s Stalin really thought that England would invade Soviet Union any minute hence his paranoia.

Wonderful video!!!! 👍👍👍👍 I didn't know that Russia have royalty until I was in the fifth grade. They didn't teach much about the Russian Revolution either! I read the book, Nicolas and Alexandra and saw the movie version from that book when I was nine. Keep up the great work!❤️ Bravo!👏👏👏👏

Thank you. That was great! J.

I learn allot---- well done!

Great stuff

Made my week

Felicitari !!!

Mikhail Bulgakov wasn't even born until 1891. he wasn't discussing anything with anyone in the 1870s, 80s, or 90s. On the other hand, Mikhail Bakunin was relevant at that time as the father of anarchism makes more sense in the context you were refering to.

Thank you for producing a historically objective documentary. I’m so exhausted going through other channels with their blatant revisionism and neoliberal/fascist propaganda.

I want to thank you for this very informative, balanced and insightful, documentary. I feel that absolutely, everyone utterly, ignorant of what true and proper Communism is all about, should, really, watch this and learn something for a change. Again; Thank You. 🙂🖐🏼

This documentary is beyond gap filling, and I didn't miss a single piece of detail

The people who did this documentary should teach how to do them to Deutsche Welle and BBC. This was an unbiased documentary.

Splendid narrative. Greatings from Zaragoza- Spain

It is good to see a documentary on KZfaq that doesn't show the Lenin and the Communist as bloodthirsty monsters, but gives a more or less impartial portrayal of Lenin and the Communists. Let us not forget that under the Communists, the Russian life expectancy, which was a medieval 30 years before the Communists came to power, matched the West at 65 years by 1960. The Communists moved their country forward by centuries in a mere several decades.